Milan Kalabic

Milan Kalabic (1886-3 October 1942) was commander of the Serbian State Guard in 1942, preceding Dragomir Jovanovic, and the father of Chetniks commander Nikola Kalabic.

Biography
Milan Kalabic was born in 1886 in Podnovlje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary. He fled to the Kingdom of Serbia to volunteer in the Serbian Army during the Balkan Wars and World War I, and in 1930 he was found guilty of murdering two innocent brothers while serving in the gendarmerie in February 1924. After Nazi Germany invaded and occupied Yugoslavia, Kalabic became the commander of their Serbian State Guard auxiliary unit. However, he passed information and supplies to the Chetniks during World War II; his son Nikoa Kalabic was a Chetnik commander, and on 3 October 1942 the Gestapo executed Kalabic for treaon against Germany.